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Google denies shift from UK as Deepmind founder steps back.
AI lab’s new leader is based in California, with Demis Hassabis remaining in London as chair.
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Universities in Italy are set to receive a modest increase in public funding and a new mechanism to finance strategic initiatives, the government has announced
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Research cooperation between the EU and China has been limited to “basic research in targeted areas”, with negotiations on wider R&I cooperation “now on pause for the foreseeable future”
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UK should ‘seek to withdraw’ from Copernicus programme.
Science Works think tank calls Europe’s earth observation project “extremely poor value for money”.
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Review aims to make Welsh research ‘globally competitive’.
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Major scholarly publishers report ‘strong’ financial results
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Global Talent visa expands to research-intensive businesses.
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Funders are grappling with major shifts in research funding, assessment and publishing, according to the head of the Dutch Research Council (NWO), who told us about its work on a plan for how to respond to these factors and others
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MEPs have written to the European Commission to express concerns about what they suggested are design flaws in a consultation on funding public-public and public-private partnerships under the EU’s next research and innovation programme:
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Research leaders have broadly welcomed moves by funders to allow use of AI to support evaluation processes, while cautioning about AI “influencing scientific assessment”
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Switzerland and UK positive about potential association to EU's next research and innovation programme
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Free-to-read opinion: Europe should read a potentially transformative new US science plan not as a blueprint to imitate, but as an invitation to reflect on what kind of research ecosystem it wants to build, says @LERU_SG
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Free-to-read: If funding is meant to support transformative ideas, some uncertainty is not a problem, writes Anete Vingre from Technopolis, based on an evaluation of the Austrian Science Fund 1000 Ideas programme
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REF director defends summer survey to finalise policy.
Exercise could result in “refinements” to final guidance for the 2029 REF, scheduled for autumn.
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Industry urges governments not to cut EU R&I funds
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Confirmed: Jodrell Bank telescope loses funding as STFC confirms cuts to nine physics and space projects.
First reported by us in early July.
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Environmental sustainability should be a “strategic priority” in the EU’s next research and innovation programme, according to @ScienceEurope, a group of major research funding and performing organisations
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Absorbing science brief into business department ‘makes sense’.
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ERC to award fewer Starting Grants in 2027 as already-tight budget falls
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UPDATED: Jonathan Reynolds named science secretary as Dsit abolished.
Plus, role of artificial intelligence minister elevated to a cabinet position with Kanishka Narayan continuing in the role.
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